The people of the court, all women, "No matter what the officials think, Longqing loves to die." For the first time, he became interested in "the hateful official document", and he held Hai Rui's recital all day long and did not withdraw his hand, and asked Chen Hong, who was serving on the side: "According to Hai Rui, isn't Xu Ge an old lady?" ”

Chen Hong cried and laughed and said: "The master can really ponder, but if you compare the imperial court to a back house, isn't Xu Ge Lao just an old lady in charge?" ”

"What about Elder Li?" Long Qing asked with interest.

"Li Ge is old, she is the eldest daughter-in-law, honest and wooden, she is so angry that she is pressed by her mother-in-law, and she likes to dip a little bit cheap, but she suffers from not having enough eyes, and she is always cheated by others." Chen Hong laughed and said, "Master, did you say that?" ”

"Not bad, not bad." The emperor bowed his head and said, "What about Master Zhang?" ”

"Zhang Ge is the old lady's boudoir. This eldest sister-in-law has a lot of eyes, and she hasn't married out yet, so she naturally wants to give birth to some right and wrong, but the old lady raised her from xiǎo, so she is more partial to her. ”

"Hmm......" The emperor thought that this was really the case, but after all, it was his own master, so it was inconvenient to comment, so he revealed it and said, "What about Master Chen?" ”

"Chen Ge Lao", Chen Hong thought for a while and said: "It's a concubine's boudoir, who doesn't please the old lady, and anyone dares to bully her, so life is difficult, so I can only swallow my breath and be a man with a heart."

"Well......,... the emperor felt a little guilty when he heard this, and nodded: "I have seen Master Chen a few times, and I do feel depressed. Saying that, he sighed and said, "Why don't you please Xu Ge Lao?" ”

"This situation is mostly because her own mother competed with the old lady for favor back then." Chen Hong looked at Long Qing with a wistful look, and saw that he did not show a look of disgust or even vigilance, so he said casually: "As a result, the old lady drove her aunt away, and the life of the aunt's boudoir is naturally sad." ”

"Hey........." This is a bit explicit, but Longqing's trust in Chen Hong makes him not think about it from the side" just followed his words and said: "I don't know Master Gao's old cold legs" didn't do it again this winter? You haven't heard from me for so long, you can't be angry with me, right? ”

"This slave often asks..."", Chen Hong hurriedly replied: "Since August, I have indeed not received any letter from Master Gao. ”

"Alas, I'm not filial as an apprentice." Long Qing felt deeply remorseful and said: "There are many rights and wrongs in the court, so I forgot to greet my master, he must be angry with me." Saying that, he instructed Chen Hongdao: "The New Year is approaching, and a part of the New Year's goods paid tribute by the vassal kings in various places will be allocated." I will write another letter, and you will send someone to send it to Master Gao......" After a pause, he said, "Let's see how Master Gao is doing?" ”

"Yes." Chen Hong hurriedly responded.

Feeling that the atmosphere was a little dignified, Long Qingqiang smiled and said: "By the way" Everyone in the cabinet has said, but they haven't talked about Master Shen...... "......", "Shen Ge Lao", Chen Hong said quietly: "It's a kind of angry Xiǎo daughter-in-law......"

One sentence hit Longqing's mood again, and he sighed: "Alas, Master Shen is really wronged, and I am incompetent, I can't even play with his slightest wish, so I really withdraw salt from his wounds." ”

"Alas......,..." Chen Hong also sighed with Long Qing. He knew that the emperor was talking about Hu Zongxian's name.

At the beginning, Longqing saw this matter too simply, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to give the result in one day. But the actual situation is that "this nickname is more difficult to give birth than giving birth to a child in NV.........

On the day the edict was issued, Zhao Zhenji, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said in the letter: "Given the name, it is related to the evaluation of the life of the deceased official, and it is necessary to be responsible for the history books and justice, and we must be cautious." The opinions of the hundred officials should be consulted first, "by the Hanlin Yuan at first, then by the Jiāo cabinet, and finally by the emperor." ”

Longqing was very helpless about this, because although Zhao Zhenji said it well, the nickname developed to this dynasty "is basically indiscriminate, extraordinary and not evil, and has become a must-have to decorate the spiritual position of high-ranking officials"...... Basically, officials who are above the third grade and have not made major mistakes can be punished. In addition, the new dynasty of Longqing rehabilitated the ministers for the advice of the previous dynasty, so there was a phenomenon of a large wholesale of the nickname, "so Longqing has never given this file to the court, how great it is."

The emperor thought too simply, maybe he gave someone a nickname "It's not a big deal." But for a controversial figure like Hu Zongxian, who has a great body of right and wrong, how the nickname "is not only related to his own conclusion, but also affects the fate of many living people, and may even affect the situation of the court."

Because the whole process of the production of the name of the emperor is to be discussed by the masses, adjudicated, determined, and given, at least nominally, it is to be discussed by the masses, adjudicated, and finally promulgated by the emperor, which can be regarded as a historical evaluation of this person, which is more credible than any holy decree or statement sent by the court.

If Hu Zongxian is given praise, then he is no longer a controversial positive figure, and the higher the degree of praise, the higher his historical evaluation, which will of course make it difficult for those who have insulted and persecuted him to sleep...... Hu has become a good person, they are bad people, the higher Hu's image, the worse their image will be, and they will even lose the height of their morality and fall into the situation pointed out by Qianfu, so as long as there is a one in a thousand possibilities, they will not let Hu Zongxian get praise so easily, at least they can't let him get praise.

Although he is very clear about the thoughts of the hundred officials, but the Ministry of Rites talks about the rules, and the emperor has no way..."The political system of the Ming Dynasty has developed to the present, and the emperor only has the highest decision-making power for government affairs, and if the specific affairs under the hands .........of the chā are to be severely scolded, he can't go beyond the Ministry of Rites, flip through the "Confession Table" by himself, and give Hu Zongxian a name, which will not conform to the procedures, and will be regarded as a shame by the Hu family, and will not receive his affection.

As a rule, the nicknames are announced at the funeral. In order to wait for these two words, Hu Zongxian's coffin is still parked in the Pantheon, so that Longqing cannot follow him as his master Jiāo. But no matter how anxious Longqing is, he can only let him go through the procedure step by step, Rao is he sends people to urge every day, and when the number is reported, he has already entered the moon.

It's too late, it's too late, Longqing suppressed his anger, opened the book and looked at it, and he was angry again..., it turned out that the discussion came and went, and in the end it was given, Xiangshu,. There is also a note at the back that says, "The armor has labor and Xiang, which makes the people sad and sad", and there is a large explanation behind it. However, Long Qing didn't want to see so much nonsense, and he recently criticized the nickname, "Naturally, I know the true meaning of these two words...... Wenchen has military merits, and he must not die well. Together, these two words say, "This is a civil servant who has military merits and cannot die well." , to say that this is a summary of Hu Zongxian's life, it seems that this is indeed the case.

This is the decision of the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Temple, after repeated considerations............ They were neither willing to offend Shen Gelao, nor even more unwilling to offend Xu Gelao, so they used this one that no one could find out máo's disease, and fairly evaluated, "Let no one find máo disease." However, in this era of overflowing beauty and devaluing nicknames, such emotionless plain words "are themselves a kind of derogation, so how can the emperor get his hands on it?"

In order to prevent some people from blocking the way of speech and blinding the Holy Hearing, he also issued a special decree ordering officials in Beijing and even local officials in various provinces to put forward their own opinions: "Be sure to give Hu Zongxian an evaluation that can withstand the test of history."

Both the government and the opposition can see that the emperor is determined to fight against the cabinet this time, but most of the Beijing officials are still not optimistic about Longqing, thinking that just like he confronted the cabinet several times before, and in the end, all of them ended up with the emperor bowing his head and admitting defeat, and the result this time "will not be the same."

Although most of the Beijing officials were silent, as time went by, the recitals from Nanjing, from the southeastern provinces, and eight hundred miles from their homes flew to the celebrant like snowflakes! Regarding the issue of giving Hu Zongxian a reprimand, the officials and gentry in the southeast showed an unexpectedly positive attitude. They took this opportunity to openly sue for Hu Zongxian, and for the first time, they showed the "true" feelings of the officials and people in the southeast for Hu Zongxian in front of the eyes of the people of the world.

There are eight major government officials such as the Nanjing Military Department, the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, the Hanlin Yuan, and the Guozijian, as well as more than 100 officials from Jiang Xi who jointly signed a letter as evidence: The ministers are sincerely afraid, and they beg the Holy Lord to reward their diligence and repay their merits. The minister is only that the world does not suffer from heroes and heroes, and there is no encouragement: the king does not suffer from the reputation of the lord, but the suffering cannot make good use of it. Our country's meritorious order, where the first merit is above the first level, "there is a difference in rank, and there is a difference in the award: among them, there is a thief and a city, that is, the reward is extended, the lord is a marquis, and the meritorious heroes are not thin. However, there are also those who are determined to repay the Lord, to protect the great and deteriorating, and to recreate the success, but they are unjustified and dirty, and they cannot be redressed, which is the depression of the people's hearts and the legacy of the prosperous dynasty, which is not shallow. The ministers are indignant in the middle, and they are obliged not to be hidden, and they are Chen for the emperor, and they are only listened to by the holy lord. ,,Jiajing, Jiān people outside the comparison, the internal invasion of the Japanese, the southeast cover precarious, the first minister Shaobao Hu Zongxian, to supervise the imperial history of the Luàn, so that the lives of several provinces, were exempted from charcoal, its merit is also unusual? When the five peaks and the islands were scattered, each with tens of thousands, they parted ways and plundered. The governor of the general army is guilty of incompetence, and the court hangs a reward of 10,000 gold earls! If there is no Zongxian to dàng flat, the embankment is not solid, the momentum is monstrous, and it is impossible to know what to do. I don't see the Song people in Western Xia lost, such as folding the right arm, even in the name of Han and Fan, one after another, and the pawn can not be controlled. Who is the chief of Yuan Hao? The cave of the fox is also free. It is a strange room for Zongxian, and it seems that it is not under Han and Fan. Today, Huang Tong Yesu is said to be the country's wealth to the southeast: and the southeast is safe and sound, the seven provinces are endless, and the south of the nine is safe, and the contribution of the constitution cannot be blamed."

, Hu Zongxian is a talent for controlling wind power, swallowing the vicissitudes of life, recruiting heroes, spies, training technical attacks, and practicing water warfare! Where all the preparations, careless, so can level the decades of entrenchment, save the six and seven provinces of burning and plundering, this is not easy! If it is a high and scolding, squandering a thousand gold, the queen of Luo I; Break the nobles, reconcile China and foreign countries, in order to destroy this and the birds; This righteous and good guard Ru Tu, who knows his suffering, and can't speak, is humiliated and dirty, and it is also sad! Needless to say, Zongxian's products are flawed and not hidden, but they are more trivial and dirty than them. The minister who thinks about the insult when he is in trouble, can he afford to be like a person in the nine plains and the bottom pillar? ”

, the ministers are in the southeast, and they have been in the past, and they have seen the most cordial. And this is the public opinion of the southeast, not the private words of the ministers. My emperor tried to inquire about the great xiǎo ministers, did he not take the loyalty of Zongxian to the merits? Emperor Su once said: I am guilty of Zongxian. Who will serve the country in the future? It is the diligence of Zongxian, which my emperor knows, and the emperor also knows it. Ranzong was brutally tortured to death by the cool officials, Wu Yue Shimin talked about this, and every time he choked his wrists, he cried bitterly and wept. This is the spirit of Du my Ming officer, how can it be so holy and benevolent, my emperor? Fu Wang's subordinate to the ministry, from the public to the public, to cooperate with public opinion, to cooperate with the national code. This is also an opportunity to exhortate people's hearts. Listen to it. , Longqing immediately criticized the red after this chapter and said: Hu Zongxian's merit, the merit is in the community, and he is also the minister of Haiyu Yiqinfeng. It's a pity that he was brutalized to death by a cool official, if he can't be generous and generous, and make up for his grievances, if something happens in the future, who else will come forward? I can't sleep and eat, and I'm ashamed of the saints."

As soon as this joint recital came out, it washed away a slander that Hu Zongxian had borne for a long time, that is, although Hu Zongxian succeeded in pacifying the Japanese, this was based on his cruel recording of the southeast, so although he defeated the Japanese invaders, the officials and gentry and people in the southeast still hated him to the core. This statement originated from Hu Zongxian's sworn enemy Wang Bengu, because it was very useful for smearing Hu Zongxian and eliminating the bad effects of the bird's bow, so it was quickly used by the so-called Qingliu in the DPRK and China, and was severely branded on Hu Zongxian's face.

Now the officials in the southeast have said that this is not a matter at all, and the people in the southeast are grateful to Hu Zongxian. And the emperor did not blame him for the crime of forging the holy decree, and all of a sudden, the three mountains that pressed on Hu Zongxian's body went to two, and the remaining one was the so-called Governor Yinshan. However, only a few days later, the official in charge of confiscating Hu Zongxian's family property reported that various belongings were found in his home, which was only more than 5,000 taels of silver. In Huizhou, where rich businessmen gather, it can barely be regarded as a Xiǎo Kang, and it is definitely not rich.

As a result, more and more officials began to question, is this the Governor Silver Mountain? This mountain is too xiǎo!

The official who handled the case back then could only repeatedly say how luxurious his life was at that time. However, after many years, there has been no evidence to prove that it will no longer be accepted by public opinion when the wind direction has completely changed today.

Gao Cháo, who petitioned for Hu Zongxian, appeared on the eighteenth day of the lunar month, on this day, the man who entered Beijing to take the exam, dressed in plain clothes, fighting, and buried in prison with a sword. The loyal soul surrounds the white clouds, and the huge couplet starts from the chessboard heavenly street, crosses the east and west rivers and rice lanes, and marches around the city along the main road.

If it had been in the past, the Soldiers and Horses Division and the Shuntian Mansion would have sent people and horses to disperse these moves. However, at this juncture of changing public opinion and turbulent turmoil, no one dares to act rashly, and can only let those who raise their voices shout. When passing by the Guozi Prison, the prisoners poured into the nest and joined the procession, the momentum was even more vast, and more unscrupulous, and later they even shouted the slogan, "Down with the right jiān, return me justice", the sound shook the sky, and the whole Beijing city people heard it.

Xu Ge was in the deep palace, and although he couldn't hear the sound outside, he was still frightened after receiving the report.

, can't let it go" After the fierce psychological struggle, Xu Ge Lao finally made up his mind and was just about to order someone to deal with this matter, but he heard the news that the emperor personally went up to the city to announce to the scholars